Nobel Prize Categories

Can you name the six categories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded, including the controversial category which many say doesn't really count?

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Chemistry

Economics

Literature

Medicine

Peace

Physics

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37 Comments

Level 27

Nov 5, 2012

Well, the noble prize... maybe the best-known in the world, but sometimes REALLY arbitraily...

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Level 81

Mar 26, 2013

Agreed....at least for the Peace Prize. Political correctness rules in the selection process, and I've lost all respect for this Prize's prestige. As far as I know, the others have retained their integrity.

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Level 78

Oct 8, 2015

Economics is quite political and controversial sometimes too. But I agree that most problems are with the Peace Prize. It has been a joke since Kissinger, and it haven't recovered.

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Level 76

Oct 12, 2018

@Haggy999 Henry Kissinger won it in 1973 too, and he's one of the most morally bankrupt politicians in all of American history in my opinion.

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Level 66

Oct 12, 2018

Obama being given the prize was definitely premature - and I say that as someone that generally respected him and (at least some of) his achievements. Did he deserve it eventually? Maybe. Did he deserve it in 2009? Absolutely not.

Level 71

Oct 10, 2023

even Obama thought he didn't deserve it lol pretty sure he said that in an interview

Level 43

Oct 10, 2023

He was being modest - probably one of the reasons he won it

Level 68

Oct 13, 2023

I, too, probably don't deserve a peace prize.

Level 70

Oct 10, 2023

remember when Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ both recieved the peace nobel price while they were still at war and after Kissinger actively participated in making the decision of this invasion of a foreign country where his side committed unspeakable war crimes...? Yeah...

Level 76

Oct 10, 2023

And Thọ rejected the prize pretty much saying "PEace? What peace?"

Level 24

Dec 30, 2012

easy 6/6 in the first 19 seconds.. WOOT!

+11

Level 31

Mar 12, 2014

One could accept economy for economics - I know it's not the same thing, but for pain non-native speaker it would be fair

Level 61

Apr 26, 2017

Depending on the country you're from, it could be synonymous. "Economics" in the US can be the same thing as what is termed "Political Economy" in the UK

Level 71

Oct 13, 2018

There is no such thing as a Nobel prize in economy, nor in economics. Nobel created only five prizes.

Level 76

Oct 24, 2014

Ach! Got the first 5 and was looking for something in the alphabet after "physics"! Any chance you could sequence the last prize under M for medicine?

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Level 69

Apr 9, 2017

I am an economist and I am telling you that it should be classified under "Voodoo" sciences.

Level 67

Oct 13, 2018

A physicist, a chemist and an economist are stranded on a desert island with a crate of canned food but no can opener. You can look up the rest of the joke.

(Nobel did not include an award in economics; it was only created in the 1960s with an endowment from a Swedish bank. So strictly speaking there is no Nobel prize for economics.)

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Level 69

Oct 10, 2023

What the hell kind of comment is this? Tell us the joke, or don't tell it. If it's not important enough for you to write in full, just saying nothing is always an option.

Level 16

Oct 11, 2023

you know the saying about people who complain about unfinished jokes?

Level 69

Oct 12, 2023

Now, that's a great joke! ;-)

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Level 69

Oct 10, 2023

Here's the full joke, by the way. Maybe that dude felt like it was great enough to warrant some kind of mystic initiation process known as "googling it", or maybe he was worried he would upset the Mighty Invisible Hand if he told it publicly. I'm not afraid.

A chemist, a physicist and an economist are all trapped on a desert island trying to figure out how to open a can of food.

"Let's heat the can over a fire until it explodes!", exclaims the chemist.

"No no," says the physicist, "let's drop the can onto the rocks from the top of a high tree!"

"I have an idea," says the economist. "First we assume a can opener . . ."

Level 66

Jun 25, 2017

i missed the two most popular ones..... im such an idiot.....

Level 66

Jun 25, 2017

2nd try got all in 18 secs!

Level 41

Feb 15, 2018

Peace was the only one that I missed:(

Level 59

Oct 12, 2018

I think you can accept Biology for Medicine

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Level 81

Oct 12, 2018

Why? That's not the name of that prize category.

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Level 72

Oct 12, 2018

There is no Nobel Prize for economics. Alfred Nobel created five prizes. In 1968, to legitimate a non-science as a real science, the Swedish Central Bank created the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

At the very least, there needs to be a disclaimer that it includes one category not created by Nobel.

Level 44

Jul 28, 2019

Only 3 prizes for quantifiable achievements.

Literature and Peace are extremely subjective and the peace prize especially is a token award which requires grand gestures but no results.

Meanwhile, as others have pointed out, Economics is technically not even a Nobel prize and also it is clearly still a dubious science in its infancy.

Level 55

Sep 18, 2023

They are all very subjective, not just literature and peace. Who decides what the best physics, medicine, or chemistry achievement is? There are almost always competing alternatives that may, in some cases, be just as worthy of the award as those that won it. These categories are just as subjective as the rest.

Level 69

Oct 10, 2023

Easy: it's awarded to whomever physicsed the most that particular year.

Level 79

Oct 16, 2023

The question wasn't about the subjectivity of the field itself but of the decision in each field for who wins the prize, which is subjective regardless of category.

Level 62

Oct 10, 2023

People can say what they want, but the Nobel Foundation certainly treats the Economics prize very similarly to the rest of the prizes in terms of the timing of the announcement, the decision process, and the award ceremony. This is pretty hard to reconcile with the view that it's a "fake Nobel."

Level 16

Oct 11, 2023

so sad the most useless prize is what most people got right lol

Level 79

Oct 16, 2023

Yeah an absolute tragedy I'm devastated

Level 79

Oct 16, 2023

I love how the quiz description says including one controversial category that many say doesn't exist and the comments are just people saying it doesn't exist

Level 62

Jun 26, 2024

I agree, but also looking back at Wayback Machine, the description wasn't added until at least October of 2023. Most of these comments were made before it was added.

Level 54

Feb 21, 2024

There is no economics Nobel prize.

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